[OpenLayers-Users] How to get Blue Marble imagery? WMS, WorldWind, WMS Tiled, ...

[Niccolo Rigacci]

Hi,

I was trying to get a Blue Marble [1] background from some public 
available service.

I see that there is a standard WMS server here [2] which it works 
using the OpenLayers.Layer.WMS() function. But the server is not 
very reliable (several 500 Internal Server Error).

I also used a WorldWind service here [3] which is working using 
the OpenLayers.Layer.WorldWind() function. But also here I get 
several 'Service denied due to system overload' errors in the 
responses.

Is there some way to use the "WMS Tiled" service from NASA [4] in 
OpenLayers? Is that service more reliable than standard WMS or 
WorldWind?

Thank you.


[1] http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/BlueMarble/
[2] http://wms.jpl.nasa.gov/wms.cgi
[3] http://worldwind25.arc.nasa.gov/tile/tile.aspx
[4] http://onearth.jpl.nasa.gov/tiled.html

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Niccolo Rigacci
Firenze - Italy